Breast-strap slide



(Model.)

Wg. HAYDEN Breast Strap' Slide.

Ne. 237,863. Patented Feb. 15, |881.

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PATENT WILLIAM B. HAYDEN, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

BREAST-STRAP SLIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,863, dated February 15, 1881.

Application filed December 30, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oolumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Breast-Strap Slides, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a sliding plate for location upon a breast-strap and provided with means for its connection with a neck-yoke; its object is to provide for the ready attachment and detachment ofthe neck-yoke without unbuckling the breast-strap, to prevent unintentional detachment of the neck-yoke, and to obviate wear of the breast-strap by the sliding plate.

It consists in the combination, with a breaststrap slide, of a loop or hanger depending therefrom, an independently-swinging hoop loosely suspended from said loop or hanger, and one or more guard-plates extending from said loop downwardly beyond the tip of said hook, and serving to prevent the escape of a ring therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention, as applied to a breast-strap and connecting a neck-yoke therewith. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the sliding plate detached. Fig. lis a view of the swinging loop and hook-guard detached. Fig. 5 is a detached view of the hook. Fig. 6 illustrates a modified form of hook.

The letter A indicates a curved metallic plate, shaped to t upon the upper side of the breast-strap B as it hangs from the hames. This plate is provided at its ends with fixed loops a, a., which loosely embrace the strap and secure said plate thereto, and said plate is also preferably provided with edge-lianges c, Which extend across and form shields and guides for the edges of the strap.

The letter D designates a swinging loop or hanger, the end bar, d, of which lies across the upper or concave side of the plate A and is journaled in embracing-bearin gs e,which hold it in proper position. From the lower portion of the swinging loop D project two sectorshaped guard-plates, F, which are connected by a loop, g.

The hook H is suspended, by its hooked shank, from that portion of the swinging loop D which lies between the junctions therewith of the guard-plates F, and said hook hangs normally between said plates, extending only so far below as to permit the yoke-ring I to swing freely in the hook below the edges of the guard-plates, while the tip of the hook extends upward between said plates.

lIn order to place the neck-yoke ring in the hook and thus connect the yoke with the breast-strap,the hook must be raised to about the position indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and it is obvious that when it hangs down the edges of the guard-plates will prevent the ring from becoming disengaged. The neck-yoke prevents the hook from swinging outward, and the loop g, which connects the guard-plates, prevents it from swinging inward away from the plates to such a position as to permit the escape of the ring.

The swinging loop or hanger D permits the neck-yoke K to have all the endwise movement incident to ordinaryuse without causing the plate A to slide on the strap, which is thus relieved of a great amount of wear, but at the same time said plate may slide when necessary.

It will be observed that while the rings of the neck-yoke are very securely held while in use, these rings can be readily released to permit detachment of the yoke by simply raising the tips of the hooks sufficiently above the top edges of the guard-plates, and thus is obviated the necessity of unbuckling the breast-strap.

rEhe hooks for engaging the' rings of the neck-yoke may be provided with springs, as shown at h, Fig. 6, or spring-tongues,after the manner of snap-hooks, for the purpose of guarding against the escape of the rings from the hooks in traversing rough roads or when unruly horses are used.

What I claim is- 1. The combination, with a breaststrap slide, of a loop or hanger depen ding therefrom, an independently swinging hook loosely sus-- pended from said loop or hanger, and one or more guard-plates extending from said loop or hanger alongside said hook and below its tip, and serving to prevent the escape of the ring therefrom, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the plate A, of the swingingdoop provided with the guardplates F, connected ab their inner edges, and the hook loosely suspended from said swinging loop, between said guard-plates, substan- 1o tinlly as described.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VJILLIAM B. HAYDEN.

Witnesses:

E. K. STEWART, L. D. HAGERTY. 

